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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Ben Parry, Essential Tone Poems, Gibbons' O clap your hands

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥� this week we bring you five great symphonic tone poems.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 09:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no.1 in B flat major K.207 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Derniere valse

    Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Ensemble: I Giardini.
    • Alpha.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les baricades mist茅rieuses (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Erato.

  • Jan Hugo Vorisek

    Symphony in D major, Op. 24

    Orchestra: WDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • SONY.

  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Canciones Populares Espanolas (Nana)

    Performer: Yaniv d'Or. Performer: Ensemble NAYA.
    • Naxos.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Le rappel des oiseaux (Pieces de Clavecin)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in G minor RV.495

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.

  • Fela Sowande

    Obangiji

    Performer: Richard Lea.
    • Liverpool Spectacular! Richard Lea plays the Organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cat.
    • Priory.
    • 6.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto Serenata (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Moretti. Orchestra: Real Orquesta Sinf贸nica de Sevilla. Conductor: Edmon Colomer.
    • 狈补茂惫别.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.7 in E major D.729 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: M眉nchner Symphoniker. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Solo Musica.

  • Hubert Parry

    I was glad

    Performer: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: James Lancelot. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • Warner.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der Vogelf盲nger bin ich ja (The Magic Flute)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Tutto Mozart!: Bryn Terfel/Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    脡tude-tableau in A minor, Op.39 no.2

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • The Complete Solo PianoMusic - Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Traditional Catalan

    Song of the Birds

    Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Ensemble: Cellos of the City of Birmingham Orchestra.
    • DECCA.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.

  • Duke Ellington

    Solitude

    Music Arranger: Morton Gould. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: VOCES8.

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne

    Performer: Philharmonix.
    • DG.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    The Noonday Witch Op.108

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • SONY.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    Soir d'hiver

    Singer: Eug茅nie Lefebvre. Performer: Lucie Berthomier. Performer: Louis-No毛l Bestion de Camboulas.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (Allegro)

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Performer: V谩clav Luks.
    • Accent.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse Triste (Kuolema Op.44)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Murder on the Orient Express (Overture, Waltz, Finale)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 Aug 2020 09:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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